Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-01-20

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The once highly-prized Cashmere
shawls have gone so completely out of
fashion that the manufacture of them
has stopped, and there is a probability,
that their fabrication will become a
''lost art" The Province of Cashm re,
in India, has been thrown into distress
by this freak of fashion, andaiany of the
population have become paupers.
I'm case in which man was being
tried for murder, when the clerk re-
peated the formula, "Prisoner. look
upon the Jurors; jurors, look. upon the
prisoner" one of the Sworn twelve"
who was very stupid man, looked sol
emily at the prisoner for a while, and
then said:s> az" think he guilty. He
looks like murderer. IN Y. Ledger.
Slang is rapidly demoralizing our
people. A beautiful and cultured young
woman, the other evening, in referring
to the lustre of her rich dress, remarked
that it had helped her in making no end
of ,eonquests II call it," she said,
''the mash-sheen, because it has made
so many mashes." This is horrible!-
Boston Transcript. 81 III
"A resident of Danbury, Conn.,,
touched his finger, recently, to we'll
charged electric wire, '''just for the fun
of the thing" and was instantly knocked
down, and didn't recover for several
hours. He was considerably frightened,
and more SO when told that II he had
grasped the wire he would have been
killed. -7-Hartford Post.
From the official reports just pub
lished on the cost of public vaccination
in London it appears that the whole-ex-
pense is not less than 100000 year.
In 1885 the fees and attendant expenses
reached $4,000 The cost of calf
lymph factory alone is over S15, 900 per
annum. The inspectors and other Off
GERS fill out the 100000.
"A white convict recently escaped
from a gang working onSthee Georgia
Midland railroad. A bloodhound was
put on his trail and afterward found
manacled to tree with the convict's
shackles. Two new dogs were started
after him, and when they caught him he
made friends with them, and traded
them to negro woman for his dinner.
He has not been caught yet. -Attants
| Consultation.
| -@Nifie., Jeanne Gfsnicr, the French
actress, was recently sued by her laun-
dress for $40, single years bill for
washing her clothing. At first tho
judge thought the bill too large, but
when, il wassexplaincd that Milo.
Granier's silk stockings cost $50 par,
and so had to be handled with unusual
care, he gave decision IN favor of the
laundress for the full amount,
The New Yor club men who con-
template organizing the Kissing club
have decided to adopt as badge a
miniature chestnut, with little bell in
the interior, controlled. by a spring on
the conical end. This chestnut will DO
close imitation of the real article. 1t
will be made of gold or silver and will
be worn as a watch-charm, like the
famous peanut of the well-known club
bearing that name. ~ Y. Tribune.
Leigh Hunt said of house which he
often passed, and which had flowers on
its front; There is something very
agreeable in the silent, good-natured in
tercourse which these plants convey be-
tween the residents and passers-by. )"
No doubt most persons form opinions
of he inmates of dwellings by the COR
dition of the front, including the fence
and the ground outside as well as inside
of tn T. Tribune.
The successor of the chestnut bell
has appeared. 1t is the electric chest
/ nut button. The button is modelled
after the electric annunciator button,
and is intended to be worn openly on
the lapel of the waistcoat When you
have one, aud some one kindly tells you
fthatyour favorite story is chestnut,
you suavely ask him to ring it up for
! YOU. As soon as he presses the chest
nut button needle point runs into his
finger and announces that the laugh is
on h m Chicago journal.
Before marriage" Excuse me,
George, did my parasol hurt you?"
40, no, my dear; it would be pleasure
if it did," After marriage-''Great
heavensi There never was a woman
under the sun who knew how to carry
an umbrella without scratching fel-
lows ewes out" And there never
was a man who knew enough to ws.k
on the right side of woman with a
parasol." There isn't any right side
to woman with parasol. Hartford
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